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Damon Albarn has had a very productive 2014, releasing a fantastic new album, and delivering a memorable tour. In between all that, he found time to record a song called “Sister Rust” that he wrote for the new Luc Besson film Lucy, which stars Scarlett Johansson.

While I didn’t enjoy Lucy, “Sister Rust” is a stunner. It’s got that signature Albarn touch that just leaves you feeling all kinds of warm inside.

Tony Allen is a 74-year-old drummer known best for his work with Africa 70, a group who is heavily responsible for the Afrobeat genre. You may know him best as the drummer for the Damon Albarn-led supergroup The Good, The Bad, & The Queen.

In October he will release a new album called Film Of Life (via Jazz Village). Allen reunited with Albarn on album track “Go Back.” It’s a song that’s cool and collected, a perfect fit for Albarn’s vocals. Lots of jazzy moments involved as well that make it an all around smooth listen.

I’ll always be bitter that Governors Ball placed Outkast against Damon Albarn, a tough decision no matter how you look at it. Thankfully I had my decision made for me, as I got approved to shoot Albarns set. Due to the conflict with Outkast, the crowd was shamefully less packed than it would have been if he had been placed against anyone else, but it didn’t phase the man one bit.Read the rest of this entry »

Damon Albarn’sEveryday Robots has been gracing our ears for a while now, but that hasn’t stopped him from releasingmusic videos for its tracks. The latest video is for “Mr. Tembo.”

The video features Albarn and his band The Heavy Seas playing the song at the Pentecostal City Mission Church in London, and includes the churches choir. The elephant Mr. Tembo, who inspired Albarn to make the song, also shows up through some video footage.

Over the last few months Damon Albarn has been teasing us with bits and pieces of his debut solo LP Everyday Robots. We’ve gotten some studio recordings of songs, but some have been just live session cuts or radio rips.

A while back we heard a radio rip of “Heavy Seas Of Love”, but now Albarn has released the official studio recording.

After all these years, I finally saw Damon Albarn live. I never got to see him in the many groups he performed in over the years (Blur, Gorillaz, The Good, The Bad & The Queen), but I can’t complain as I finally got to see the master at work. His Fader Fort set was not to be missed, as it contained songs from all over his incredible career with these various projects.

He used most of his time to perform tracks off his upcoming solo album Everyday Robots, including many we are familiar with already such as the title track, “Lonely Press Play”, and “Heavy Seas Of Love”. There were also plenty new ones such as “You and Me”, “Hollow Ponds” and a lively cut called “Mr. Tembo.”

He also made time for his other projects, such as The Good, The Bad & The Queen’s “Kingdom Of Doom” (one of my favorite songs of his). Then there was also many Gorillaz songs, such as “Tomorrow Comes Today”, “On Melancholy Hill”, and “El Manana.” He brought out some friends to mark the occasion, including De La Soul for “Feel Good Inc.” and the original team that recorded “Clint Eastwood” (for the first time ever live): Del Tha Funky Homosapien, Dan The Automater. At the tail end of that Snoop Dogg came out to drop a verse from “Drop It Like It’s Hot” to send the crowd into near pandemonium. It was pretty damn cool.

It was an epic set in every way, and totally worth how long I waited to finally see the truly great Damon Albarn. I’m looking forward to his upcoming set at Governors Ball this summer.

The song sounds just as pure and imaginitive as it does when he performs it live. You get to experience through a visual stunning video that was actually shot by Albarn himself. The video’s description reads:

The footage in the video is shot by Damon on a tablet and you’ll see scenes from Tokyo, London, Dallas, Utah, Colchester, North Korea, Iceland and Devon.

Damon Albarn’s debut solo album Everyday Robots is one of my most anticipated releases of the year. We already heard the fantastic first single and title track, as well as a radio rip of a song called “Heavy Seas Of Love.”

During Sundance, he played a small show. Video of a song called “Lonely, Press Play” that he performed during that show surfaced and the song sounded awesome. Now we got an even more gentle version of the song that he performed live for Dermot O’Leary’s show on BBC Radio 2 earlier today. He also performed a cover of Terry Jacks’ “Seasons In The Sun.”

We already heard the title track of Damon Albarn’s debut album Everyday Robots, and it’s quite amazing. We also got to hear a new song from a live performance he did at Sundance.

Now yet another song from his album has premiered: “Heavy Seas Of Love.” It has been released through the site Genero.TV and unfortunately has an annoying robot radio tag playing over it. But you can still get a nice healthy sample of the track, enough to let you know that this is indeed yet another great track from Albarn. More proof that this debut album is going to be something very special.